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Email PagePeter Acheson 2007
January 5, 2007- February 3, 2007
Reception: January 5, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Peter Acheson
Elizabeth Harris
529 W 20th StThe Elizabeth Harris Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by Peter Acheson. The Gallery is located at 529 West 20th Street, 6th floor, and is open Tuesday through Saturday 11-6. There will be a reception for the artist on Friday, January 5, from 6-8.Peter Acheson’s new work is direct and transparent in technique. The images seem the result of a wide and seemingly casual investigation of the tools of painting: brush, support, knife, and color. Much influenced by the landscape in which he lives and his feeling for shifting weather, Acheson implies a grand scale with simple marks, emptying out rather than adding in to arrive at complex configurations.John Yau wrote; “(His painting) reminds us that we can learn to see the world differently, that we can expand our consciousness of the daily, that the world is full of occult signs.” The paintings contain a sense of humor that declares that ordinary relationships are enough, and in the fact of their ordinariness, deeply mysterious.In the refusal of a signature style, Acheson is pointing out the limitations of language, which is, after all, a tool. Wonderful as it is, language only gets you so far. Language whether written, spoken, or painted leads to meaning. Acheson has written: “The arts which mimic the manic rush of time, film, video, journalism, run the risk of attempting meaning. Poetry and painted images create islands of non-meaning in a sea of meaning. Much like the final image in Tarkovsky’s Solaris, these islands are places where contradictions can flourish and larger wholes can be perceived.” Acheson invites the viewer to leave the cultivated garden of language, enter wildness, and experience imagination as meaningless play, or, perhaps more accurately, as playful meaninglessness.Peter Acheson was born in Washington, D.C. and lives and works in Columbia County, New York. This is his fourth one-person exhibition at the Elizabeth Harris Gallery. He has been exhibiting since 1984.
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